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Date:      Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:46:21 +0100
From:      David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dualboot with Windows 7
Message-ID:  <4F6770ED.1030708@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F6764A0.9080405@eskk.nu>
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On 19/03/2012 17:53, Leslie Jensen wrote:
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> 2012-03-19 08:53, Da Rock skrev:
>> On 03/19/12 17:49, Polytropon wrote:
>>> On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:29:22 +0100, David Demelier wrote:
>>>> On 19/03/2012 07:28, Polytropon wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:05:58 +0100, David Demelier wrote:
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I try to create a dualboot with Windows 7, I set up partitions like
>>>>>> that :
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ada0s1 -> NTFS (windows recovery)
>>>>>> ada0s2 -> NTFS (windows main partition)
>>>>>> ada0s3 -> BSD
>>>>>> ada0s3a -> freebsd-swap (3G)
>>>>>> ada0s3b -> freebsd-ufs / (remaining space from drive)
>>>>> Erm... according to traditional partitioning, isn't
>>>>> the 'a' partition reserved for booting, 'b' for swap?
>>>>> I see you have installed everything into one / partition
>>>>> which technically is no problem and should work, but
>>>>> it's not on the boot partition.
>>>>>
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>>>> You're right, but I made a mistake while writing, my a partition is /
>>>> and b is swap.
>>> Okay.
>>>
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>>>>>> And then I let the installer complete the step, because FreeBSD
>>>>>> didn't
>>>>>> let you (since 9.0) choose between the boot manager nothing was
>>>>>> installed and the boot directly goes to Windows 7.
>>>>> You need to install all the required stages for booting.
>>>>> If I understand the process correctly, the slice 's3' needs
>>>>> code to "branch" to the boot partition (which is supposed
>>>>> to be the 'a' partition), and the boot selector needs to
>>>>> be accessed from the "beginning of the disk" - you said
>>>>> you're using EasyBCD for this which is okay.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I followed the part 13.3.2 from
>>>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think this should be enough, isn't it? it says bsdlabel -B will
>>>> replace the boot1 and boot2 stage so all of them are installed.
>>> Looks correct.
>>>
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>>>> Now the question is how to branch the a partition as the "boot
>>>> partition" ?
>>> No need. As soon as the "branching" from ada0-"start" -> ada0s3
>>> has been processed, the 'a' partition ada0s3a will be accessed
>>> as it is the boot partition. It will then continue stage 1 and 2
>>> and finally access the loader, which will load the kernel.
>>>
>>> In 13.3.2 it is explained as follows:
>>>
>>> They [Stage One, /boot/boot1, and Stage Two, /boot/boot2]
>>> are located outside file systems, in the first track of
>>> the boot slice, starting with the first sector. This is
>>> where boot0, or any other boot manager, expects to find
>>> a program to run which will continue the boot process.
>>> The number of sectors used is easily determined from the
>>> size of /boot/boot.
>>>
>>> In your case, the "boot slice" (for FreeBSD) is ada0s3 where the
>>> boot manager EasyBCD will "branch" to.
>>>
>>> Getting just a cursor (as you described) makes it hard to
>>> identify where the process hangs. If EasyBCD is the last
>>> thing you see, I assume the FreeBSD boot process isn't even
>>> initiated. Every part of it (MBR boot manager, boot0, boot1,
>>> boot2 and loader) would issue some kind of text when accessed.
>> I couldn't say exactly how to do this now (been a looooong time), but
>> you should be able to boot using the Windows loader (this may have
>> changed in recent editions. Don't think so though). This will give you a
>> choice between Windows or FreeBSD and defaults, timers, etc during boot.
>> Used to be able to do it under system properties I believe; run a google
>> search should provide some examples.
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> Using EasyBCD you must ensure that your Windows partition has the boot
> flag set.
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I reinstalled using the auto scheme, by adding a partition now it works. 
Thanks for your answers!

Cheers,

-- 
David Demelier



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